Egypt-based group claims Israel border attack

An injured Israeli soldier is wheeled into Soroka hospital in the southern town of Beersheva, Israel, Friday, Sept 21, 2012, following an exchange of fire with militants along Israel's southern border with Egypt. / AP Photo/Yehuda Lahiyani

(AP) CAIRO - A group inspired by al Qaeda and based in Egypt's Sinai peninsula has claimed responsibility for a shootout along the Israeli-Egyptian border in which three militants and an Israeli soldier were killed.

Ansar Jerusalem, in a statement posted on militant forums late Saturday, linked the attack to an online video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad that has sparked protests across the Muslim world.

It said the militants were Egyptians and that the operation was a "disciplinary attack against those who insulted the beloved Prophet."

The group alleged Jewish involvement in the low-budget film, though it was produced in the United States by an American citizen who is originally from Egypt.

It also praised Muslim demonstrations over the film that were directed at U.S. diplomatic facilities in many countries.

Ansar Jerusalem said three militants had crossed the border into Israel early Thursday and remained hiding until midday Friday, when they saw and attacked an Israeli patrol. It accused Israel in the Aug. 26 killing of Ibrahim Aweida, one of its leaders, in the Sinai village of Khreiza, 10 miles from the Israeli border, and warned of more attacks against Israel.

Aweida led an attack last year that killed eight Israelis near Eilat, according to the group.

The Israel-Egypt border has become particularly volatile since the fall of longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising last year. Several militant groups mushroomed in Sinai, staging multiple attacks on a pipeline delivering gas from Egypt to Israel, frequently lobbing rockets into the Jewish state and sneaking across the border and killing Israelis.

[M-Saeed]

greating all,
you must aware there order in these universe we living. Find your destiny and follow the order Islam is last message og Abrams religion.Is not allow to make universl message into community trade, and manover into one another every period. I mean some people keep switching the religion egg; the daytime he/she is muslim, the afternoon is christian in the evining is Jew in the midnight is a bagun worshiping Egyptian and hindu and sumerian alien gods. Falez select your destiny is not allow to leave like dogs.

[judymar14]

That this 'film maker' is from Egypt, no matter what religion he is, for these ignorant barbarians to blame the US shows they are hopeless, nothing can be done to bring them into the 21st century, leave them be to kill each other till they are wiped out, if that is possible, the way they breed.

[earth5695]

The MSM press over the years is just here.

The Press was condemning Israel for defending itself and retaliating after holding back in hope for a resolution whether it be against Hezzbolah or Hamas.

It is the duty of any government to protect its citizens from violence. Imagine what the response would be if this violence was occurring to any other country. When the British tried to control the last Palestinian intifada, the Arab revolt of 1936-1939, entire villages were burned and more than 3,000 Palestinians were killed.

During "Black September" when Palestinians rioted in Jordan in the 1970s, King Hussein massacred 2,500 Palestinians in 10 days. Likewise, Syrian President Assad slaughtered 20,000 of his own people during civil unrest in Hama, then paved over the dead -- a toll that the Israel intifada would need 100 years to match.

[earth5695]

Re_aka Achmed fro Tehran ,

Propoganda ?

Please tell me how it's incorrect otherwise p iss off.

Anyone with a brain umlike yourself can check everything I just posted for its authenticity. Google it, Get a history book or two.

Otherwise,how are things in Tehran Re_ ?

Did they give you a bonus for repeating yourself and the copys and pastes this past week ?

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[earth5695]

Re_Achmed.

Still nothing from you to prove this as propoganda ?

[Calltwoarms]

It's time that Israel start patrolling the Sinai with combat patrols. Search and destroy the little no account Muslim psychos. So far they've blamed America at large, President Obama, all Americans, the Israelis and God knows who else.

I think it's time to empty our maximum security prisons into some of these Muslim countries and give them a taste of what evil truly is. They think they're tough but, give an inmate an AK-47 and some R.P.G.'s and see who comes out on top.

[Well_You_Aint_Me]

Don't sound like the sharpest folks around, "three militants and an Israeli soldier were killed."

Hope they have a good supply of militants or they are doomed. Of course the Vietnamese used the same strategy against America in the 1960's.

[technocoffee]

The Religion of Peace looking daily for an excuse to kill non-muslims...

[iAceMadman]

The extremists are just expressing their love for the prophet. It's an emotional experience, often accompanied by pulling the trigger of a gun or a bomb.

[alpinequeen]

Any excuse to fire a weapon.